Burning Candles: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Burning Candles: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
2008Documentary93 mins

Plot

She was her generation’s Madonna and Bob Dylan rolled into one—and yet, by the 1970s, major poetry anthologies no longer mentioned Edna St. Vincent Millay. She had become a lost poet, her literary status mirror... read more

  • Robert A. Duncan

    Director

  • Robert A. Duncan

    Writer

  • Jeff Hodges

    Camera Technician

  • Doug Sjoquist

    Camera Technician

  • Ned Miller

    Camera Technician

  • Steve Phillips

    Camera Technician

  • Janice Brown

    Editor

  • Edna St. Vincent Millay

    Herself (Archival Footage)

  • Robert A. Duncan

    Narrator

  • Jennifer Lines

    Reader

  • J.D. McClatchy

    Editor, Yale Review

  • Elizabeth Barnett

    Literary Executor

  • Nancy Milford

    Biographer: "Savage Beauty"

  • Daniel Mark Epstein

    Biographer: "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed"

  • Stephen Young

    Poetry Magazine

  • Christian Wiman

    Poetry Magazine

  • Holly Peppe

    Millay Scholar

  • Runtime

    93 minutes

    Released

    2008-02-22

    Languages

    English

    Studios

    International Documentary Television Corporation

    Updated

    1248 days ago

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